Brings us back in the hunt for Treloar to be honest.
GWS suddenly looking short on the KPP front.
Thoughts?
A comparison to us.
Tall forwards
Cameron, Patton, Finlayson, Stewart,Tomlinson. Besides GWS have emphatically stated McCarthy wont be going anywhere. Four are first round picks and one a second round.
If they all turn out okay and get close to their potential they will be in a good place. Even if only three make it they will be in a good place. Imo it is inevitable they will lose two of them for no other reason than lack of opportunity.
Riewoldt, McKenzie, Vickery, Griffiths, McBean. Seems to me looking forward GWS are in a better position than us with their tall forwards especially when you consider the last three Vickery, Griffiths, and McBean are all considered ruck/forwards. Based purely on numbers we have room for at least one more key forward on our list.
Tall defenders
Corr, Davis, Marchbank, Mohr, Plowman, Patful, Tomlinson, could even place Nick Haynes here a genuine tall at 192cm who can play on talls and smalls and provide some run. Imo Tomlinson will be high quality at either end of the ground. He provides massive flexability during games.
Five of those mentioned are first round picks
Astbury, Chaplin, Elton, Grimes, Rance.
Imo take Rance out of the equation and it looks damn ordinary. As for numbers we are short at least one tall defender on the list. A high quality one is needed imo.
Ruckmen
Downie, Lobb, Mumford, Phillips. They have three young developing ruckmen They could possibly do with a ready to go ruckman to cover for injury to Mumford in the immediate future.
Maric, Hampson, Soldo,
Mcbean, Griffiths, and Vickery. All second string ruckmen who play forward.
Imo we need another junior front line ruckman on our list because of the quality of the last two. We can also do without one of the three Ruck forwards imo.
To conclude if Gws are looking short on the kpp front then we are even more so.
We have some top end talent in each area but we drop away badly imo. We also have some age issues with Maric and Chaplin both 30 plus next year.
If we do nothing about our talls in the off season and go into the year with the same list of tall's then we remain really vulnerable to the injury gods.
Imo if we were to lose Rance, Riewoldt and even Maric then we wont be winning games.
That's just three players, one kpd, one kpf and one ruck. We drop away so much in these areas after these three we are vulnerable. Sooner or later Riewoldt is going to have a yr full of injury and the same can be said of Rance. We have already seen how much we struggle with out Alex the few times he has missed in recent years. We have seen what the loss of Maric has done to us when injured. We are yet to suffer the consequences of no Riewoldt for a sustained period.
To me a big part of list management is all about covering your bases and continually raising the standard we really dont have the bases covered and we really do need to keep raising the bar.
To win a premiership we all know you can't rely on one player in each area. Atm that is what we do imo.